Bbc Cilvilisation

BBC - Storyville: The Great Hip Hop Hoax (2013)
PDTV | 832x468 | .MKV/AVC @ 1503 Kbps | 1h 26mn | Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 927 MiB
Genre: Documentary | Comedy | Music

Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. No one knew the pair were really Scottish, with fake American accents and made up identities. When their promising Scottish rap act was branded 'the rapping Proclaimers', friends Billy and Gavin reinvented themselves as LA homeboys. The lie was their golden ticket to a dream life. With confessions from the scammers, insight from the music execs they duped and doodle reconstructions, this film charts the rollercoaster story of the highs of the scam and the lows of madness and the personal toll the deception took. A film about truth, lies and the legacy of faking everything in the desperate pursuit of fame. The Great Hip Hop Hoax is a Glimmer Films and Met Film Production co-production with BBC Scotland, BBC Storyville and Creative Scotland.

Ken Russell at the BBC, Disc 2 & 3 (2008)
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966); Dante's Inferno (1967); Delius: Song of Summer (1968)

He is perhaps the most criminally underrated great director of all time. He's earned an Oscar nom, and more early career accolades than many attempting his craft. But thanks to a late in life clash with commerciality, and a stern sense of self-importance, Ken Russell now stands as a pseudo-joke. He remains a great champion of his own Englishness, and has often used unusual platforms (Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, for example) to keep his reputation exposed and intact.

BBC - Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos (2014)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2065 Kbps | 59mn 3s | Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 873 MiB
Genre: Documentary

As part of the 50th anniversary of BBC Two, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse present their own unique biography of BBC Two. They romp through the story of Two's highs and lows, from imported Scandinavian dramas, via The Forsyte Saga, Tim Nice But Brooke Taylor, Late Night Line Up with Joan Bakewell Tart and Monty Python. It drops into The Office and Boys from the Blackstuff, Arena, Old Grey Whistle Test and The Apprentice among many others. The show visits and parodies in the region of 50 different shows, and there are 150 of BBC Two's favourite presenters, actors, comics and politicians on parade, most of them portrayed by either Harry or Paul, with a little help from their friends.

BBC - The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill (2014)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 1380 Kbps | 1h 58mn | Audio: English AC3 384 kbps, 6 channels | Subs: English | 1.27 GiB
Genre: Documentary

This documentary explores Kate Bush's career and music, from January 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow, through the testimony of some of her key collaborators and those she has inspired.

BBC - Amy Winehouse in her Own Words (2015)
WEBRip | 1280x720 | .MP4/AVC @ 2995 Kbps | 22mn 53s | Audio: English AAC 160 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English | 517 MiB
Genre: Documentary

A portrait of Amy Winehouse the artist threaded together from extracts from interviews she gave to the BBC for a variety of documentary projects including the Jazz and Soul Britannia series on FOUR, much of which material is previously unbroadcast, blended with performances from across her career, including some which are also previously unbroadcast and unseen. Winehouse had a strong relationship with many parts of the BBC from when she launched herself as an artist back in 2004. In her short musical career, the North London native changed the landscape of modern pop culture, won countless awards, achieved critical acclaim and garnered global success before tragically dying at the tender age of 27. On the eve of the release of Asif Kapadia’s Amy documentary film which explores Winehouse’s life and death, here is an exploration of her music and her influences in her own words. Consisting performances and interviews entirely from the BBC archives this film celebrates Amy’s music, her influences, her challenges as an artist and her eternal brutal honesty in her own words.